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Elizabethan English

/əˌlɪzəˈbiːθən ˈiːŋɡlɪʃ/

Elizabethan English proper noun: the dialect of English spoken during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

Proper noun

Elizabethan English

  1. The dialect of English spoken during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
    • Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10

Questions about Elizabethan English

What does Elizabethan English mean?
Elizabethan English means the dialect of English spoken during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
What part of speech is Elizabethan English?
Elizabethan English is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Elizabethan English?
Elizabethan English is pronounced /əˌlɪzəˈbiːθən ˈiːŋɡlɪʃ/.

Words near Elizabethan English in the dictionary

  1. Elizabeth Town
  2. Elizabetha
  3. Elizabethan
  4. Elizabethan collar
  5. Elizabethan collars
  6. Elizabethan English
  7. Elizabethan sonnet
  8. Elizabethan sonnets
  9. Elizabethana
  10. Elizabethanise
  11. Elizabethanised

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